Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive- (1851) (14587063590)

Identifier: trentonfallspict01will (find matches)
Title: Trenton Falls, picturesque and descriptive:
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, ed. (from old catalog) Sherman, John, 1772-1828. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Trenton Falls (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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uced to anotherstill more expanded and extensive platform of levelrock, fifteen rods wide at low-water, and ninety inlength, lined on each side with cedars, which extenddown to the walking level, whose branches allcrowd forward imder their bending trunks, and whosebacks are as naked as the towering rocky walls, con-cealed in contrast a rod or two behind them. This place may justly be denominated the Aliiam-BRA of nature. At the extremity of it is one of themost interestinor scenes imao-inable ; a scene that nopen can describe to one Avho is not on the spot, andwhere every landscape painter always drops his pen-cil. It is far too much for art to imitate, or for elo-quence to represent. It is the prerogative of ISTaturealone to do this: she has done it once, and standswithout a rival competitor. Here I ought to dropmy pen. A naked rock, sixty feet high, reaches grad-ually forward from the mid distance its shelving top,from which descends a perpetual rill that forms anatural shower-bath.
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ml ■-- ILLUSTRATED. 25 On tlie very verge of its overhanging summitstands a tall cedar, whose fingered apex towersaloft, pointing up to the skies, and whose thickbranches elongating gradually towards the root,reach far down the projecting chff with an impene-trable shade of deepest verdure. On the left is amost wild cascade, where the water rushes over thevariously posited strata in all directions, combiningthe gentle fall and the outrageous cataract, whichwe term the Cascade of the Alhambra. Here the expansive opening suddenly contracts,and leaves a narrow aperture, through which theeye beholds mountainous walls retiring in variouscurvatures and projections. Directly opposite thespectator is a large perpendicular rock on the otherside of the stream, at whose base the rao-ino- watersbecome still. Annexed to this is a lofty tower,rising in a vast column at its side, commanding,with imposing majesty, the scenery around. Atyour feet is a dark basin of water forty feet deep,resting from